Google Flying a Kite?

Google Flying a Kite?
Google, a company that has long championed renewable energy,  is looking closely at the possibility of conventional wind farms with tall wind turbines being replaced by innovative floating turbines. The possibility of air-borne devices to harness the wind is not new, but the fact that Google is now involved might give this fledgling arm of the… Read the rest

El Hierro to be powered by100% Renewable Energy

El Hierro is a Spanish-owned island, one of the Canary Islands, off the West Coast of Africa. It is 278.5 square kilometres and was formed approx 1.2 million years ago after three successive eruptions. The island emerged from the ocean with a triangle-shaped top with a volcanic cone more than 2,000 metres high. Despite being formed… Read the rest

The United States and Offshore Wind Power

The United States and Offshore Wind Power
Why is it, when other countries, such as Belgium, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Germany, have built massive turbine farms off their coastlines in the past few decades, the United States has no operational offshore wind farms? The US clearly embraces wind and has a plethora of onshore wind farms sprinkled all over its states. Look… Read the rest

Rockefellers Abandon Oil, Gas and Coal in Favour of Cleaner Energy

Rockefellers Abandon Oil, Gas and Coal in Favour of Cleaner Energy
In a move that is likely to have massive (positive) ramifications, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, built with profits from their great-grandfather’s Standard Oil Co., is selling investments in the fossil fuel industry in a move to put pressure companies that are adding to climate change. They are, US newspapers claim, getting out of “Big Oil” the… Read the rest

$100 billion invested in oil Will not Produce as much Energy as $100 billion invested in Renewable Energy

0 billion invested in oil Will not Produce as much Energy as 0 billion invested in Renewable Energy
Don’t take my word for it! A French investment bank, Kepler Chevreuxhas, has produced a ground-breaking piece of analysis which should have considerable implications for the continued viability of  the global oil industry. The investment bank estimates that $100 billion invested in the two key renewable industries; wind energy or solar energy and deployed as energy… Read the rest

Small Scale Wind Turbines and Scotland

Small Scale Wind Turbines and Scotland
While the UK seems to be whipping itself into a frenzied panic about the possibility of Scotland voting itself out of the Union of Scotland England & Wales and becoming an independent country, a news story from Scotland achieved little publicity: Last week Scotland revealed its plans to follow a model for small scale wind turbines.… Read the rest

Eolian Renewable Energy Set Sights on Mount Waldo Again

Eolian Renewable Energy Set Sights on Mount Waldo Again
In the town of Frankfort, Waldo County, Maine, Eastern United States,  is a small mountain about 1,060 feet (320 m) high. Granite from the surrounding area was once the stock in trade of a thriving industry. Mount Waldo Granite has a coarse-grained texture which gives it a more patchy, mottled look than the finer-grained granites. Although… Read the rest